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WORD OF ADMONITION:
Once you convince the people that giving 10% of their income to the pastor and church is the right and holy thing to do, then convincing them of anything else you want is a piece-of-cake.
THIS WEEK’S CHURCH
CATCHPHRASE
“ISOLATIONIST”
1) Someone who refuses to bow the knee to the pronouncements of men; 2) A non-participant in the false teachings of the local church.
“Clearly Janet is an isolationist, seeing she refuses to gather with the people of God!”
When we strip away what Scripture doesn’t say, what it does say becomes clearer.
And often, far more hopeful.
THIS WEEK'S BIBLE VERSE
They will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:5
See the truth come to life!
THIS WEEK'S
"The Pastoral Office"
“Only the local institutional church is ordained by Christ to carry out the
Great Commission.”
Start testing everything against Scripture and not against your pastor’s latest sermon.
The wreckage is everywhere: ruined marriages and families, devastated finances, strife and divisions, false teachings and practices stacked like firewood, and multitudes trapped in fear because they are taught that leaving "the church" meant leaving God.
But the truth is just the opposite.
Leaving “the church” is finding God!
Real freedom in Christ begins when you stop following men who bind heavy burdens and start walking in the liberty purchased by the blood of the Lamb.
What was the apostle Peter talking about when he said, “Neither as lording it over God’s heritage?”